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“How dare you!” the an a tirade about the quality and worth of his stock

Aziz stepped between them “You do not speak to her in this way!”

“I stand by the quality of oods here, sir!” the man protested

Laine regathered herself “We’re not paying that hteen dinars a piece!”

The man’s reaction was practically apoplectic, but he didn’t step any closer to her with Aziz loo over him

But as she started to turn away, he called out, “Fine! Fine! Take the food from my children’s mouths! Thirty dinars”

Laine sucked in her cheeks “Twenty-five”

The man stared at her She stared back and swiveled her head Aziz was just starting to reach for her, when the man nodded and told her to pick out which lamps she wanted

Laine smiled like a Cheshire cat

“I don’t know that orth the effort,” Aziz told her as they walked away from the booth He had ordered someone to collect their purchase for them and take it to their car

“Oh, I could have gotten theot a little bit of a discount in cost, , but I really need to get used to haggling here” Laine pressed her hand to her chest “My heart is racing, though”

“You offended his honor, by pointing out the flaw in his work”

“I was lying There was notile”

Aziz looked at her with admiration “You lied”

“Distributors and e you They don’t usually get quite so…explosive I think in the end, you’ll like the effect of those lamps They’re a little different in style than the ones I usually see, and once we have theood effect”

“I should take you to the capital withtone “You have a more cut-throat attitude toward business than many of my CEOs”

“I’m not entirely sure what a CEO does, or how it’s different from a CFO, COO, COW…”

Aziz chuckled